Child s chair



(No Model.)

A. B. STEVENS.

CHILDS GHAIR.

No. 253,320. Patented Feb.'7,1882.

N. PETERS, Hlolo-hlhographnr. wminglon. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

ASHER B. STEVENS, OF STAPLETON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THOMPSON, PERLEY &WAITE, BALDWINSVILLE, -MASSAOHUSETTS.

CHlLDS CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,320, dated February7, 1882.

Application filed November 10, 18 81. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ASHER B. STEVENS, ofStapleton, county of Richmond, State of New York, have invented anImprovement in Chihdrens Ghairs, of which the following description, inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention in childrens chairs relates to means for readily changingthe same into a high chair or rolling-chair or carriage, or vice versa,as will be described.

Figure 1 represents in side elevation one of my improved chairs adaptedfor use as a rolling chair or carriage. Fig. 2 shows the same as a highchair; and Fig. 3, a detail showing the inner side of one of the legsand guidepieces on the dotted line as .r, Fig. 2.

The seat a has usual side arms, a, and back a The foot-restb is pivotedto the seat, swings freely on its pivots, and'when the seat is loweredfor a carriage rests on the front legs, 0, which, provided with rollersor wheels are pivoted to the seat at 0 the said pivots being at or nearthe center of the said seat. The back legs are compound-that is, of twoparts, d d, pivoted together at (1 The upper ends of leg parts d,pivoted to the seat at 0 are at their lower ends bent at d to supportthe large rear wheels, 6. When theseat a is raised for a high chair, asin Fig. 2, the wheels 0 are well under the seat, out of the way; butwhen the seat is lowered for a carriage, as it maybe, as in Fig. 1, bydisconnecting the brace f from the round 9, or suitable pin of thefrontlegs, and turning up the parts d of the rear legs, the said wheels arethrown to the rear of the seat a. The under side of the seat at eachside edge has a guide, h holding stops h, which receive against them thelegs 0 d when the seat is elevatedas a high-chair, and astop, 3, whichacts against the leg part d when the seat is lowered, as in Fig. 1. Whenthe leg part 01 is inverted, as in Fig. 1, the hooked end of bracescribing witnesses.

f is engaged with a staple, i, or other suitable device attached to therear of the back of the seat. This staple might be on the arms a or seata, or some other fixed part of the chair. The leg part 01 has two stops,4 5, which serve to determine the two positions of the leg part d, theshort end 6 of the part dactingagainst said stops, as shown in Figs. 1and 2. Each leg 0 d opposite/the guide h has a finger, h (see detail,Fig. 3,) which laps over the said guide-piece and steadies the leg as itturns about its pivotal point 0 I claim- 1. The seat and its longfrontlegs, combined with the back legs composed of the twoparts d d and d,and with the wheels e. the portions 11 of the parts at of the rear legscarrying the wheels 0, while the portions d of the said rear legs arepivoted with relation to the portions '61 as described, to be turned upfor a handle when the seat is lowered fora carriage, substantial] y asset forth.

2. The long front legs, a, and the wheel-carrying parts d d of the rearlegs, and parts d, pivoted thereto at d combined with the brace f,pivoted to the rear legs, whereby it is adapted at times to be engagedwith the front legs to keep the front and back legs together for a highchair, and at other times to be engaged with the back or other fixedpart of the seat or chair, substantially as described.

3. The part d 01 ofthe rear leg, provided with the stops 4 5, combinedwith the part d, pivoted at 01 and having the short end 6 to engage thesaid stops, substantially as shown and described In testimonywhereoflhave signed my name to this specification in the presence of twosub- ASHER B. STEVENS. Witnesses:

' G. W. GREGORY,

, W. H. SIGSTON.

